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Volvo Wants You To Ditch Car Keys For Its New Smartphone App (dailydot.com)
An anonymous reader quotes an article on DailyDot: Lending your car to a friend could be as easy as sending a text. That's the future Volvo is imaging with its smartphone app that enables keyless entry for the driver -- and anyone with permission to enter. Announced earlier this year and now prominently on display at the New York International Auto Show, the app does away with key fobs and puts the key right on the user's phone. Using the device's Bluetooth capability, the app can do just about everything that a standard key could do -- from unlocking the doors to popping open the trunk to even starting the engine of the vehicle without turning the ignition. Beyond just convenience for the primary holder, the Volvo app also allows others to take the wheel without requiring a physical key. Users are able to grant digital keys to others, allowing them temporary or ongoing access to the car.
Worse than that, I need to get into the car to charge the phone.
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Not exactly. It lacks the smug sense of superiority that Tesla owners crave.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
I give it about 2.5 hours before it's cracked the first time.
Tesla, a company with roots in technology and computers sucks at security. Microsoft, Google, Apple and slews of others (including the overwhelming Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc... community) could not on the best day make Bluetooth secure. I'm buying a BMW i3 right now which is extremely smart phone friendly and already know that simply because it's made by BMW it's an open hack fest since BMW is great at making things like drive trains and leather seats, when it comes to anything electronic, they're idiots.
So, here comes the infamous Volvo... a company who specializes in making automotive dinosaurs and they're going to make technology like this?
I believe Amy (Big Bang Theory) explained Volvo best when she made the statement "She was the only girl who would pass out drunk at wild college parties and wake up with more clothes on". That's Volvo in a nut shell... they could sell cars without any locks or security and people still wouldn't steal them.
Don't worry, you can just call Volvo to have them unlock the car so you can charge the phone.
> Onstar owners smug sense of superiority (is there such a thing?)
Nah, most of us Onstars don't even think about the plebeian poser fucks who don't have it.
I will tell the valet to remember that the unlock code is y04WhDlHff6A49yarVdYjVxhwlu5X9WEOw5MZBu2Flj9srrbbB2
8ZDAr1IN4lm7fvoe4Y9n
That's easy to crack if you speak ancient Decepticon.
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